San Diego 2010 New Years Tango Festival Schedule

Tentative Class Titles (Still Subject to change)

Update: Nov 30, 2009

Class_Date Class_Times Teacher/Teachers Topic
12/31/09 06:00-06:30 Thursday Check-in & Warmup
12/31/09 06:30-07:45 Thursday Session 1
Int/Adv Homer & Christine His and Her Pitter-Patter. Various techniques for playful interactions between leader and follower.
12/31/09 08:00-09:15 Thursday Session 2
Int/Adv Homer & Christine Catch The Moon. Games designed to develop connection, musicality, & floorcraft.
01/01/10 11:00-12:00 Friday Check-in & Warmup
01/01/10 12:00-01:15 Friday Session 3
Advanced Brigitta & Fabienne Women's Technique: I create my dance
Int/Adv Jaimes & Christa Single Axis Turns. Maximize your ability to use energy and dynamic without ever coming apart from each other.
01/01/10 01:45-03:00 Friday Session 4
Advanced Homer & Christine The Embrace and Variations. Exploring transitions from various forward facing embrace concepts from close to open.
Int/Adv Brigitta & Fabienne Subtle Ochos & Other Friends
01/02/10 11:00-12:00 Saturday Check-in & Warmup
01/02/10 12:00-01:15 Saturday Session 5
Teacher/Pro Brigitta Winkler Teacher Seminar I: Teaching Techniques & Insights
Int/Adv Fabienne Bongard Embracing the Wabi-Sabi of Tango and Milonga
Int/Adv Jaimes & Christa Essential Navigation. Festival/Buenos Aires dance floors FOR BOTH ROLES
01/02/10 01:45-03:00 Saturday Session 6
Advanced Homer & Christine The Hard Side. Understanding why things are hard vs easy for the follower and/or leader. Follower's pivot technique for Ochos, Rebotas (switch-steps), Boleos, and Sacadas.
Int/Adv Brigitta & Fabienne Tangofairytales. Classic patterns & their archetypes
Int/Adv Jaimes & Christa The Milonguero Groove. Innate and consistant rhythms underlying the phrasing of our favorite tangos to lock into the Milonguero Groove.
01/03/10 12:00-12:30 Sunday Check-in & Warmup
01/03/10 01:00-02:15 Sunday Session 7
Teacher/Prof Brigitta Winkler Teacher Seminar II: Teaching Techniques & Insights (Pre-req: TS I)
Int/Adv Jaimes & Christa Perpetual Turns in Tango & Vals
Int/Adv Fabienne Bongard Milonga at any time in any space... And the imperfect life we live in
01/03/10 2:45-4:00 Sunday Session 8
Advanced Brigitta & Fabienne Play with Enganches
Int/Adv Homer & Christine Kiss Me Goodnight & Other Such Rhythmic Oddities. Playing with tango syncopa & other 'loosely based' rhythmic ideas using simple but interesting movements.
Int/Adv Jaimes & Christa Corridas. An essential addition to the vocabulary of turns.

Tango Festival Milongas

Date Day Start - End Location DJ/Orchestra Event
12/31/09 Thu 09:30p - 01:00a Kona Kai America Mauhar $20. Early Arrival Milonga
01/01/10 Fri 03:15p - 06:30p Kona Kai Martin Rybczynski $15 Welcome Milonga
01/01/10 Fri 09:30p - 02:00a Kona Kai Mila Khoroosi $20, Friday Night Milonga
01/02/10 Sat 03:15p - 06:30p Kona Kai Varo Boyajyan $15, Alternative Music Milonga
01/02/10 Sat 09:00p - 02:00p Kona Kai Vijay Namasivayam $20, Traditional, Elegant Milonga
01/03/10 Sun 06:00p - 11:00p Kona Kai Lampis Zalavras $20, Hardcore
01/03/10 Sun 12:00p - 06:00a Patty Well's Dancetime Center Maziar Nezhad $10, All Nighter